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		<title>By: Insight_Incite</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 18 Dec 2014 18:46:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Excellent piece.]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Excellent piece.</p>
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		<title>By: Brice</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Brice]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Oct 2014 12:39:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Iraq invaded an American allied country. Iran and Libya support terrorism. Venezuela has done nothing but circle the drain as they continue to destroy their economy with foolish economic decisions causing instability in the South American continent. That&#039;s enough for another country to dislike them.]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Iraq invaded an American allied country. Iran and Libya support terrorism. Venezuela has done nothing but circle the drain as they continue to destroy their economy with foolish economic decisions causing instability in the South American continent. That&#8217;s enough for another country to dislike them.</p>
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		<title>By: Bobd06</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Bobd06]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Oct 2014 10:58:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Facts are irrelevant to the left when they collide with the &quot;narrative&quot;.]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Facts are irrelevant to the left when they collide with the &#8220;narrative&#8221;.</p>
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		<title>By: Ocean View</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Ocean View]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 23 Aug 2014 06:17:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The war in Iraq was &#039;simply&#039; to put forces strategically located throughout the world to contain China as well as to prevent them from cornering vast oil supplies.]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>The war in Iraq was &#8216;simply&#8217; to put forces strategically located throughout the world to contain China as well as to prevent them from cornering vast oil supplies.</p>
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		<title>By: atlantarunner</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[atlantarunner]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 16 Jun 2014 16:52:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[We are debating on why we went to war with Iraq.  That means by default then that whatever reason was given to us by GW Bush was then nothing but a lie and we have to sit here and debate what might be the real reason.  If it&#039;s 10 years later and we still don&#039;t know for sure..then it definitely wasn&#039;t worth it and I smell something rotten.  Why wasn&#039;t it a clear reason?  There is no reason that justifies today the $6 trillion cost of that war.  Since nobody really wants to come out and give us the real clear reason, it&#039;s safe to assume there were ulterior motives directly linked to abuse of power, personal gain and kickbacks under the table for the GOP. ]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>We are debating on why we went to war with Iraq.  That means by default then that whatever reason was given to us by GW Bush was then nothing but a lie and we have to sit here and debate what might be the real reason.  If it&#8217;s 10 years later and we still don&#8217;t know for sure..then it definitely wasn&#8217;t worth it and I smell something rotten.  Why wasn&#8217;t it a clear reason?  There is no reason that justifies today the $6 trillion cost of that war.  Since nobody really wants to come out and give us the real clear reason, it&#8217;s safe to assume there were ulterior motives directly linked to abuse of power, personal gain and kickbacks under the table for the GOP. </p>
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		<title>By: Mark Wittkowski</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Mark Wittkowski]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 10 May 2014 14:45:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I didn&#039;t want to leave this without any details! The first is a wonderful, and eye opening for some, presentation by Stefan Molyneux at the TNW Europe Conference this April. The most truth heard in any, less than 30 min, piece I&#039;ve heard in a long time!

Bitcoin vs. Political Power: The Cryptocurrency Revolution http://youtu.be/joITmEr4SjY?t=1s

LeWeb ’13 Paris: The Future of Bitcoin and Math-Based Currencies
http://youtu.be/Yg1JnbIS60g?t=1s (first 4 min a good intro, just dated a bit)

A decent short Bitcoin overview by CTS
http://youtu.be/Cod7U9IIz5U]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I didn&#8217;t want to leave this without any details! The first is a wonderful, and eye opening for some, presentation by Stefan Molyneux at the TNW Europe Conference this April. The most truth heard in any, less than 30 min, piece I&#8217;ve heard in a long time!</p>
<p>Bitcoin vs. Political Power: The Cryptocurrency Revolution <a href="http://youtu.be/joITmEr4SjY?t=1s" rel="nofollow">http://youtu.be/joITmEr4SjY?t=1s</a></p>
<p>LeWeb ’13 Paris: The Future of Bitcoin and Math-Based Currencies<br />
<a href="http://youtu.be/Yg1JnbIS60g?t=1s" rel="nofollow">http://youtu.be/Yg1JnbIS60g?t=1s</a> (first 4 min a good intro, just dated a bit)</p>
<p>A decent short Bitcoin overview by CTS<br />
<a href="http://youtu.be/Cod7U9IIz5U" rel="nofollow">http://youtu.be/Cod7U9IIz5U</a></p>
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		<title>By: Mark Wittkowski</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Mark Wittkowski]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 10 May 2014 13:58:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Actually, it&#039;s a LOT more than that. A simpler way to look at it is &quot;control&quot; of the oil sales to preserve the petrodollar deal Nixon set up with OPEC that allowed us to also go off the gold-standard and move into hyper-Imperialism mode the likes not seen since the Roman Empire. The idea was simple, the plan massive and complex. The idea was to derive the value of the USD from world demand, seemingly backed in some way by oil since EVERY barrel out of the Middle East had to be in USD, instead of gold prior to 1971. This opened the flood gates (see my post above) for U.S. and Western Europe Imperialism, that together with the IMF and CFR then sunk the hook in deep with massive loans and asset purchases that put us, one way or another depending on any resistance, in full control way beyond our borders! 


Thank God the gig is up...it has been overseas for years...and now the U.S. and rest of the Western Populous is finally waking up! It&#039;s about damn time! BITCOIN is a serious long-term threat to this control and hegemony...and we all need your help! Just take time to learn more and move a little value into BITCOIN move it off the PC and keep it safe as gold! You&#039;ll be glad you did, years from now. And, I&#039;m not talking about much. Learn more in my bio. We are also soon launching an &quot;all-bitcoin&quot; direct selling business any week now, that is the most exciting and impactful project I&#039;ve ever been involved in!]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Actually, it&#8217;s a LOT more than that. A simpler way to look at it is &#8220;control&#8221; of the oil sales to preserve the petrodollar deal Nixon set up with OPEC that allowed us to also go off the gold-standard and move into hyper-Imperialism mode the likes not seen since the Roman Empire. The idea was simple, the plan massive and complex. The idea was to derive the value of the USD from world demand, seemingly backed in some way by oil since EVERY barrel out of the Middle East had to be in USD, instead of gold prior to 1971. This opened the flood gates (see my post above) for U.S. and Western Europe Imperialism, that together with the IMF and CFR then sunk the hook in deep with massive loans and asset purchases that put us, one way or another depending on any resistance, in full control way beyond our borders! </p>
<p>Thank God the gig is up&#8230;it has been overseas for years&#8230;and now the U.S. and rest of the Western Populous is finally waking up! It&#8217;s about damn time! BITCOIN is a serious long-term threat to this control and hegemony&#8230;and we all need your help! Just take time to learn more and move a little value into BITCOIN move it off the PC and keep it safe as gold! You&#8217;ll be glad you did, years from now. And, I&#8217;m not talking about much. Learn more in my bio. We are also soon launching an &#8220;all-bitcoin&#8221; direct selling business any week now, that is the most exciting and impactful project I&#8217;ve ever been involved in!</p>
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		<title>By: James Hay</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[James Hay]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 25 Apr 2014 18:56:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[That&#039;s what my son was there for, democracy and freedom and to kill enemies of our country. Your on-the-job boy pres. cheapened my son&#039;s and many others&#039; sacrifice by pulling out completely, the same as his &quot;plans&quot;n for Afghanistan. Personally, had I been young enough I would have gladly gone just to rid the earth of the radical rag heads that hate anything modern. If you are one, you&#039;re lucky. I can still hit a chicken sized silhouette at 800 meters with iron sights.]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>That&#8217;s what my son was there for, democracy and freedom and to kill enemies of our country. Your on-the-job boy pres. cheapened my son&#8217;s and many others&#8217; sacrifice by pulling out completely, the same as his &#8220;plans&#8221;n for Afghanistan. Personally, had I been young enough I would have gladly gone just to rid the earth of the radical rag heads that hate anything modern. If you are one, you&#8217;re lucky. I can still hit a chicken sized silhouette at 800 meters with iron sights.</p>
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		<title>By: James Hay</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[James Hay]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 25 Apr 2014 18:53:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Your facts seem to be of the liberal type. It seems to me that FDR took us off the gold standard in &#039;33 and the euro was first issued in 1999, 66 years later. Not quite &quot;shortly after&quot; as stated above. With mistakes like that I find it hard to trust the rest of your post. 
Take care and keep your powder dry.]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Your facts seem to be of the liberal type. It seems to me that FDR took us off the gold standard in &#8217;33 and the euro was first issued in 1999, 66 years later. Not quite &#8220;shortly after&#8221; as stated above. With mistakes like that I find it hard to trust the rest of your post.<br />
Take care and keep your powder dry.</p>
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		<title>By: Kealy</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Kealy]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 20 Mar 2014 20:51:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[It&#039;s not about necessarily OWNING the oil. It&#039;s about getting it to market to drive down demand and thus, worldwide price. They didn&#039;t care who gets the oil as long as it gets to market and for a &quot;reasonable&quot; price.]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>It&#8217;s not about necessarily OWNING the oil. It&#8217;s about getting it to market to drive down demand and thus, worldwide price. They didn&#8217;t care who gets the oil as long as it gets to market and for a &#8220;reasonable&#8221; price.</p>
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		<title>By: Eric</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Eric]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 19 Mar 2014 23:08:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Brilliant! Best piece I have read on that criminal debacle.]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Brilliant! Best piece I have read on that criminal debacle.</p>
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		<title>By: जय नेपाल</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[जय नेपाल]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 13 Mar 2014 10:31:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Well, ahem...Definitely you were not in Iraq for oil. Also not to place a oil-reach thug in the helm. You never did that and won&#039;t do.


I am sure you were in Iraq for spreading democracy and for promoting human rights just the way Belgians were spreading and promoting &quot;Civilization&quot; in Congo during the colonial era. Who counts how many millions of people were slaughtered?


You, sir, are definitely an angel appointed by God to promote democracy in Iraq and elsewhere. No doubt about that.]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Well, ahem&#8230;Definitely you were not in Iraq for oil. Also not to place a oil-reach thug in the helm. You never did that and won&#8217;t do.</p>
<p>I am sure you were in Iraq for spreading democracy and for promoting human rights just the way Belgians were spreading and promoting &#8220;Civilization&#8221; in Congo during the colonial era. Who counts how many millions of people were slaughtered?</p>
<p>You, sir, are definitely an angel appointed by God to promote democracy in Iraq and elsewhere. No doubt about that.</p>
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		<title>By: Mark Wittkowski</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Mark Wittkowski]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 07 Mar 2014 00:35:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[What in the heck rag tabloid are you reading?! Mike you epitomize one of the biggest and most serious struggles for our future and our efforts to fix the problems from the ground up. I guess, don&#039;t feel bad since you&#039;re far from alone. On the flip side, it&#039;s never too late to wake up, do your research, and get on board the movement. (coming soon www.projectfreedomblog.com)

 Iraq was starting to sell oil on the open market for euros. That&#039;s been a no-no since Nixon (I think it was) worked a deal out with the opec nations, where they could ONLY sell oil in USD. This was shortly after taking the dollar of gold standard, so I assume it was the new support for the USD and it did became the de facto world reserve currency. This has been the primary reason for most of the wars since, along with controlling the supply to support higher prices per barrel, other resources/minerals, trade routes, and to a lesser degree drugs, opium mostly. 

The rest of the world is wide awake to this and the negotiators on the ground under the guild of the IMF, World Bank, UN, etc...used to to take control of countries through lending and usury (interest of vast sums of money lent to them) and when they can&#039;t pay it back we slide in and take economic control (I shouldn&#039;t say we, it&#039;s most international banksters and financiers) and if there&#039;s any resistance a different, quite, small, shadow military works with local rebels to make it happen. These battles however, you&#039;ll never see broadcast on CNN. Funny, well not really funny, but this very thing is going on right now, under your nose, quietly and completely out of earshot of our media, long taken hostage away from any semblance of free speech. 

The American people need to wake up, and wake up fully NOW. A good history lesson focusing on banking, listening to speeches, and reading documents and quotes from our leaders, especially within the last 100 years, prior to the Kennedy assassination, and the attempt on Reagan is a good start! That day, March 30, 1981, forever castrated one of my favorite Presidents behind JFK and Lincoln. 


In all fairness, NO President since that day has been anything but a puppet figure head to this ruling power elite oligarchy, parading around as modern day aristocrats, lording over their globalised Neocolonialism system. And, I&#039;m very pleased to be part of a massive worldwide movement to unseat these bastards using any means necessary.]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>What in the heck rag tabloid are you reading?! Mike you epitomize one of the biggest and most serious struggles for our future and our efforts to fix the problems from the ground up. I guess, don&#8217;t feel bad since you&#8217;re far from alone. On the flip side, it&#8217;s never too late to wake up, do your research, and get on board the movement. (coming soon <a href="http://www.projectfreedomblog.com" rel="nofollow">http://www.projectfreedomblog.com</a>)</p>
<p> Iraq was starting to sell oil on the open market for euros. That&#8217;s been a no-no since Nixon (I think it was) worked a deal out with the opec nations, where they could ONLY sell oil in USD. This was shortly after taking the dollar of gold standard, so I assume it was the new support for the USD and it did became the de facto world reserve currency. This has been the primary reason for most of the wars since, along with controlling the supply to support higher prices per barrel, other resources/minerals, trade routes, and to a lesser degree drugs, opium mostly. </p>
<p>The rest of the world is wide awake to this and the negotiators on the ground under the guild of the IMF, World Bank, UN, etc&#8230;used to to take control of countries through lending and usury (interest of vast sums of money lent to them) and when they can&#8217;t pay it back we slide in and take economic control (I shouldn&#8217;t say we, it&#8217;s most international banksters and financiers) and if there&#8217;s any resistance a different, quite, small, shadow military works with local rebels to make it happen. These battles however, you&#8217;ll never see broadcast on CNN. Funny, well not really funny, but this very thing is going on right now, under your nose, quietly and completely out of earshot of our media, long taken hostage away from any semblance of free speech. </p>
<p>The American people need to wake up, and wake up fully NOW. A good history lesson focusing on banking, listening to speeches, and reading documents and quotes from our leaders, especially within the last 100 years, prior to the Kennedy assassination, and the attempt on Reagan is a good start! That day, March 30, 1981, forever castrated one of my favorite Presidents behind JFK and Lincoln. </p>
<p>In all fairness, NO President since that day has been anything but a puppet figure head to this ruling power elite oligarchy, parading around as modern day aristocrats, lording over their globalised Neocolonialism system. And, I&#8217;m very pleased to be part of a massive worldwide movement to unseat these bastards using any means necessary.</p>
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		<title>By: Cereal Killer</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Cereal Killer]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 27 Dec 2013 01:40:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[It&#039;s not about the oil, it&#039;s about maintaining dollar hegemony.   The US will go to any length necessary to make sure the entire world uses US dollars to purchase oil.  The petrodollar is key to making sure the value of the dollar remains high.    Hence the reason why Iraq, Iran,Venezuela, Libya, etc.,  became enemies of the US when they either went off the dollar standard or threatened to go off the dollar standard.]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>It&#8217;s not about the oil, it&#8217;s about maintaining dollar hegemony.   The US will go to any length necessary to make sure the entire world uses US dollars to purchase oil.  The petrodollar is key to making sure the value of the dollar remains high.    Hence the reason why Iraq, Iran,Venezuela, Libya, etc.,  became enemies of the US when they either went off the dollar standard or threatened to go off the dollar standard.</p>
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		<title>By: seaside</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[seaside]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 07 Dec 2013 18:16:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In 2020, China will be the largest oil importer in the world. They already consume more coal than te world put together.
The U.S does better than Europe mostly due to their cheaper energy. It cost two to three times  more in Europe for energy than in the US.This fact is making US products more competitive b/c they are cheaper to make energy-wise.
My guess is since the US owes China so much, providing them with the opportunity to extract oil in Iraq could be a compromise to ease the debt or any secret agreement.You don&#039;t need to be friends to make business.
China&#039;s economy will profit more from having this energetic security than having the money back and having difficulties providing themselves with oil for good money.
That&#039;s why I say that war was fought for oil. You cannot just invade a country and loot it with the pressure from the international body and your own citizens.This is the 21st century, it&#039;s harder to hide things so following the number 1 rule of strategy is always adviced...DECEPTION. Make them focus on something else while you operate on the opposite flanck.. I don&#039;t want to say terrorism doesn&#039;t exost b/c it does, but I am suspicious as to whom the real or most influential party in it is. It&#039;s become more and more okay to invade arab countries. I&#039;m a christian but I do not really practice my faith and agree what some civilizations practice does not fit with my feelings and upbringing but I also think the solutions brought to solve the problem is an overreaction. We talk about how tolerant the world has become but it hasn&#039;t.It&#039;s still the same, we just descriminate other things like religion, nature , and other people&#039;s hard work. Muslim are like a social outcast in the global opinion and people don&#039;t hide their wicked opinions about what should happen to islamic soceities. But this is only making this fascist-like ideology even stronger.Those countries feel hated for their identity which is Islam and become aggressive as a result.
Fighting those wars has only seen terrorist groups triple in number ad expand to other continents.One day, this hatred will go too far for any reconciliation to be poosible and yet the world would not have improved compared to 2000 years ago.
I am no expert and I am at least open minded to know I don&#039;t have enough experience(I don&#039;t work in those domains) to say I am stating facts. I just wish people stop stating their feelings as facts or what they read without testing it for &quot;trueness&quot;]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>In 2020, China will be the largest oil importer in the world. They already consume more coal than te world put together.<br />
The U.S does better than Europe mostly due to their cheaper energy. It cost two to three times  more in Europe for energy than in the US.This fact is making US products more competitive b/c they are cheaper to make energy-wise.<br />
My guess is since the US owes China so much, providing them with the opportunity to extract oil in Iraq could be a compromise to ease the debt or any secret agreement.You don&#8217;t need to be friends to make business.<br />
China&#8217;s economy will profit more from having this energetic security than having the money back and having difficulties providing themselves with oil for good money.<br />
That&#8217;s why I say that war was fought for oil. You cannot just invade a country and loot it with the pressure from the international body and your own citizens.This is the 21st century, it&#8217;s harder to hide things so following the number 1 rule of strategy is always adviced&#8230;DECEPTION. Make them focus on something else while you operate on the opposite flanck.. I don&#8217;t want to say terrorism doesn&#8217;t exost b/c it does, but I am suspicious as to whom the real or most influential party in it is. It&#8217;s become more and more okay to invade arab countries. I&#8217;m a christian but I do not really practice my faith and agree what some civilizations practice does not fit with my feelings and upbringing but I also think the solutions brought to solve the problem is an overreaction. We talk about how tolerant the world has become but it hasn&#8217;t.It&#8217;s still the same, we just descriminate other things like religion, nature , and other people&#8217;s hard work. Muslim are like a social outcast in the global opinion and people don&#8217;t hide their wicked opinions about what should happen to islamic soceities. But this is only making this fascist-like ideology even stronger.Those countries feel hated for their identity which is Islam and become aggressive as a result.<br />
Fighting those wars has only seen terrorist groups triple in number ad expand to other continents.One day, this hatred will go too far for any reconciliation to be poosible and yet the world would not have improved compared to 2000 years ago.<br />
I am no expert and I am at least open minded to know I don&#8217;t have enough experience(I don&#8217;t work in those domains) to say I am stating facts. I just wish people stop stating their feelings as facts or what they read without testing it for &#8220;trueness&#8221;</p>
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		<title>By: Danny b</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 21 Oct 2013 16:16:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[You are a biblical Mong it&#039;s so common these days it&#039;s worrying]]></description>
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		<title>By: dhymers</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 20 Jul 2013 21:03:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[&quot;The country is well on its way. Last December, Iraq reached a milestone, breaking the 3 million barrel threshold for the first time since 1990, reaching 3.4 million barrels a day. Moreover, unlike Western oil reserves that require sophisticated technology or deep-sea drilling to acquire, Iraq is awash in untapped reserves that can still be reached using conventional, and far cheaper methods of extraction. As a result, the International Energy Agency (IEA) projects that Iraq will double its current production to 6.1 million barrels a day by 2020, and 8.3 million by 2030, surpassing Russia as the world’s second largest oil exporter, with the capability of supplying 45 percent of the increase in global demands for oil by 2035.

And once again, emphasizing the reality of where Iraqi oil will be headed, the IEA projects that most of the nation’s oil will be exported to China and other Asian markets.&quot;

And how does this not help our interests ? .... quenching Asian demand is almost as important as receiving direct imports. Oil is a fungible commodity. This development would have taken decades more if Saddam was left in power. Ergo, war for oil, as the peak of world production looms.

No, you don&#039;t have to believe peak economic oil theory, but Cheney does. I don&#039;t harbor a psychopathic hatred for the man, only disdain for his actions faced with an eventual supply shortage problem which needed to be eased, perhaps decades hence.

Dick Cheney&#039;s speech to the Institute of Petroleum in London, 1999

&quot;Dick Cheney: &quot;From the standpoint of the oil industry obviously - and I&#039;ll talk a little later on about gas - for over a hundred years we as an industry have had to deal with the pesky problem that once you find oil and pump it out of the ground you&#039;ve got to turn around and find more or go out of business. Producing oil is obviously a self-depleting activity. 
Every year you&#039;ve got to find and develop reserves equal to your output just to stand still, just to stay even. This is as true for companies as well in the broader economic sense it is for the world. A new merged company like Exxon-Mobil will have to secure over a billion and a half barrels of new oil equivalent reserves every year just to replace existing production. 
It&#039;s like making one hundred per cent interest; discovering another major field of some five hundred million barrels equivalent every four months or finding two Hibernias a year. For the world as a whole, oil companies are expected to keep finding and developing enough oil to offset our seventy one million plus barrel a day of oil depletion, but also to meet new demand. By some estimates there will be an average of two per cent annual growth in global oil demand over the years ahead along with conservatively a three per cent natural decline in production from existing reserves. 
That means by 2010 we will need on the order of an additional fifty million barrels a day. So where is the oil going to come from? Governments and the national oil companies are obviously in control of about ninety per cent of the assets. Oil remains fundamentally a government business. 
While many regions of the world offer greet oil opportunities, the Middle East with two thirds of the world&#039;s oil and the lowest cost, is still where the prize ultimately lies, even though companies are anxious for greeter access there, progress continues to be slow. &quot;

Yes, &quot;Leftists&quot; may thank Cheney one day as Iraq becomes Saudi Arabia in terms of market stability and excess capacity, this still doesn&#039;t make it right and certainly doesn&#039;t remove the label &quot;war for oil&quot;.

If George and Dick hadn&#039;t pulled it off, Obama would likely be doing it now although with a lot of discussion from liberal interventionists on the ground showing us how many schools and clinics we&#039;re building. 

And if the US, by some twist of economic history was not in a position, or had no inclination to help open up Iraq, I&#039;m sure Russia/China would have taken some sort of crack with their own coalition of the willing.

Lets not kid ourselves that resource wars aren&#039;t inevitable or change the labels post-realization that they don&#039;t go as planned over the time period we choose.]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>&#8220;The country is well on its way. Last December, Iraq reached a milestone, breaking the 3 million barrel threshold for the first time since 1990, reaching 3.4 million barrels a day. Moreover, unlike Western oil reserves that require sophisticated technology or deep-sea drilling to acquire, Iraq is awash in untapped reserves that can still be reached using conventional, and far cheaper methods of extraction. As a result, the International Energy Agency (IEA) projects that Iraq will double its current production to 6.1 million barrels a day by 2020, and 8.3 million by 2030, surpassing Russia as the world’s second largest oil exporter, with the capability of supplying 45 percent of the increase in global demands for oil by 2035.</p>
<p>And once again, emphasizing the reality of where Iraqi oil will be headed, the IEA projects that most of the nation’s oil will be exported to China and other Asian markets.&#8221;</p>
<p>And how does this not help our interests ? &#8230;. quenching Asian demand is almost as important as receiving direct imports. Oil is a fungible commodity. This development would have taken decades more if Saddam was left in power. Ergo, war for oil, as the peak of world production looms.</p>
<p>No, you don&#8217;t have to believe peak economic oil theory, but Cheney does. I don&#8217;t harbor a psychopathic hatred for the man, only disdain for his actions faced with an eventual supply shortage problem which needed to be eased, perhaps decades hence.</p>
<p>Dick Cheney&#8217;s speech to the Institute of Petroleum in London, 1999</p>
<p>&#8220;Dick Cheney: &#8220;From the standpoint of the oil industry obviously &#8211; and I&#8217;ll talk a little later on about gas &#8211; for over a hundred years we as an industry have had to deal with the pesky problem that once you find oil and pump it out of the ground you&#8217;ve got to turn around and find more or go out of business. Producing oil is obviously a self-depleting activity.<br />
Every year you&#8217;ve got to find and develop reserves equal to your output just to stand still, just to stay even. This is as true for companies as well in the broader economic sense it is for the world. A new merged company like Exxon-Mobil will have to secure over a billion and a half barrels of new oil equivalent reserves every year just to replace existing production.<br />
It&#8217;s like making one hundred per cent interest; discovering another major field of some five hundred million barrels equivalent every four months or finding two Hibernias a year. For the world as a whole, oil companies are expected to keep finding and developing enough oil to offset our seventy one million plus barrel a day of oil depletion, but also to meet new demand. By some estimates there will be an average of two per cent annual growth in global oil demand over the years ahead along with conservatively a three per cent natural decline in production from existing reserves.<br />
That means by 2010 we will need on the order of an additional fifty million barrels a day. So where is the oil going to come from? Governments and the national oil companies are obviously in control of about ninety per cent of the assets. Oil remains fundamentally a government business.<br />
While many regions of the world offer greet oil opportunities, the Middle East with two thirds of the world&#8217;s oil and the lowest cost, is still where the prize ultimately lies, even though companies are anxious for greeter access there, progress continues to be slow. &#8221;</p>
<p>Yes, &#8220;Leftists&#8221; may thank Cheney one day as Iraq becomes Saudi Arabia in terms of market stability and excess capacity, this still doesn&#8217;t make it right and certainly doesn&#8217;t remove the label &#8220;war for oil&#8221;.</p>
<p>If George and Dick hadn&#8217;t pulled it off, Obama would likely be doing it now although with a lot of discussion from liberal interventionists on the ground showing us how many schools and clinics we&#8217;re building. </p>
<p>And if the US, by some twist of economic history was not in a position, or had no inclination to help open up Iraq, I&#8217;m sure Russia/China would have taken some sort of crack with their own coalition of the willing.</p>
<p>Lets not kid ourselves that resource wars aren&#8217;t inevitable or change the labels post-realization that they don&#8217;t go as planned over the time period we choose.</p>
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		<title>By: Mike Jones</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Mike Jones]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 25 Jun 2013 16:38:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[What a bunch of hooey. The U.S. invaded Iraq because Dubya was mad at Saddam for trying to kill his poppy so to get revenge he had the U.S. invade Iraq and it cost millions of innocent women and children their lives and thousands of U.S. soldiers as well. Yes they also invaded for oil but you say they didn&#039;t because why they tell you they didn&#039;t LOL yeah right like we should believe anything the U.S. or any puppet government they installed says. Why don&#039;t you read the Wiki Leaks of the U.S.&#039;s own documents stating how they tortured and murdered innocent civilians despite the fact they knew these people had nothing to do with terrorism. Don&#039;t forget the fact they installed more permanent bases so they could invade any other country in the reigon who doesn&#039;t co-operate with everything the U.S. says no mater how wrong or illegal it is and willingly had over all their natural resources to them. The U.S. is the planet&#039;s evil empire and the real bad guys who should be stopped.]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>What a bunch of hooey. The U.S. invaded Iraq because Dubya was mad at Saddam for trying to kill his poppy so to get revenge he had the U.S. invade Iraq and it cost millions of innocent women and children their lives and thousands of U.S. soldiers as well. Yes they also invaded for oil but you say they didn&#8217;t because why they tell you they didn&#8217;t LOL yeah right like we should believe anything the U.S. or any puppet government they installed says. Why don&#8217;t you read the Wiki Leaks of the U.S.&#8217;s own documents stating how they tortured and murdered innocent civilians despite the fact they knew these people had nothing to do with terrorism. Don&#8217;t forget the fact they installed more permanent bases so they could invade any other country in the reigon who doesn&#8217;t co-operate with everything the U.S. says no mater how wrong or illegal it is and willingly had over all their natural resources to them. The U.S. is the planet&#8217;s evil empire and the real bad guys who should be stopped.</p>
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		<title>By: Araceli</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Araceli]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Apr 2013 17:47:25 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[buyers about their licensed defense beneath the law and obligations, and also to represent ]]></description>
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		<title>By: ApolloSpeaks</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[ApolloSpeaks]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 26 Mar 2013 17:22:52 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[CORRECTION: $100  per barrel in 2008. ]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>CORRECTION: $100  per barrel in 2008. </p>
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